Photo-engraving method.



WILMA EPPERS, OI CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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PHOTO-ENGRAVING METHOD.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILMA Errnns, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Chigraphic negatives for photo-engraving work a half-tone screen having 'a stipple grain surface will give the most satisfactory results, but heretofore it has been impracticable to produce commercially a stipple grain screen having the desired texture. By my improved method of making the screen I am enabled to produce a screen having a stipple grain surface of extremely fine texture, which has been found to' give entirely satisfactory results. i y

In carrying out my method I first prepare an emulsion plate. The emulsion for this plate may be of any of the well known formulas, and one method. of making the emulsion for the plate may consist of mixing gelatin, 6 ounces, potassium bichromate, 2 ounces, potassium ferrocyanid, 4 drams, am-

monia water, 2 drams, chromic acid, 2'

drains, these all bein mixed in about 44 ounces of water. T 's emulsion 'is then thinly applied to a base, which may be of glass or any other desired material, and is exposed to the light, which exposure, after the emulsion plate has been suitably washed or placed in a water bath, causes the surface to take a fine stipple grain, which stipple ain after the p ate has become dry and t ereby sufiiciently hardened, is inked. A rubber orcomposition cylinder is then rolled over the inked surface and receives the stipple impression thereon, which impression is transferred to a transparent plate and thereby forms the screen.

While I may transfer the impression directly from the emulsion plate to the transparent plate by means of the rubber roller, I have also found it advan eons in numbers of instances to transfer t e impression from the emulsion plate by means of the Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Application filed July 15, 1914. a Serial No. 851,101.

Patented July 31, 1917.

roller or cylinder to a copper plate, then etching the copper plate, after which the copper plate may be inked and the impression taken by means of a soft roller, preferably a composition roller, from the.copper plate, and transferred by means of this roller to the transparent plate to form the screen.

Where I have used the expression photoengraving in the specification and claims, it will be understood that this term is used as a common name for the many processes by which a photograph may be made to afford a plate from which can be taken prints in ink corresponding to the original of the photographic image.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of forming a stipple grain screen which consists in forming on a printing plate a stipple grain, inking'said plate and transferring by pressure said inked stipple-grain to' a transparent plate to form a stipple grain surface on said plate.

2. The method of forming a stipple grainscreen which consists in producing an emulsion plate comprising a mixture of gelatin,

bichromate of potassium, ferrocyanid, ammonia water and chromic acid, exposing said plate to the light, then developing said plate to form a stipple grain texture on the surface thereof, inking saidplate and printing from said plate to a transparent plate to transfer said stipple grain to the transparent plate.

3. The method of forming a stipple-gram screen which consists in producing a stipplegrain eflect on the surface of a suitable plate, then transferring the stipple-grain effect thus produced on said plate by inkin the same and passing a roller over said inked surface, and then transferring from said roller to a transparent plate.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed .my name in the presence of two witnesses.

. WILMA EPPERS.

Witnesses: Jorm W.'IPPERB,

'E. R. KING. 

